offline storage with refresh from server

[davetayls]

hey, I'm trying to find a solution for an "offline-first" application where the data is stored first in the browser but can be populated from the server. will this work with your backbone-orm suite?

[kmalakoff]

We'd love to support it, but currently, there isn't a local storage solution except in memory so it doesn't persist. Plus there would be the question of syncing when connection is re-established.

I saw someone speak at an event on hood.ie and was thinking it would be great to bring our awesome query syntax and consistent Browser/Node.js support to BackboneORM. Just haven't had the time to look deeper.

Doing this would need to solve the above two problems first. Do you have any technology suggestions to fill the gap? Or would you like to work on a proof of concept? Maybe writing a BackboneORM sync for hood.ie?

[davetayls]

I have found today that it is possible to create what i explained above through use of Backbone.dualStorage which is good. I really like the concept of being able to use the same models/collections for an api so still looking at this project for that.

have you got any examples showing the full cycle because it's quite hard to work out where it all fits together from the docs